Ryan & Brittany » Things I Love http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:12:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 My Love Affair http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2010/07/26/my-love-affair/ http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2010/07/26/my-love-affair/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:10:50 +0000 Brittany http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/?p=685 I am having a slightly obsessive love affair with cookinglight.com. What a glorious website for delicious dinners with most of the nutrition facts on the bottom of the recipe (I wish they had the amount of sugar). They also have great substitutes to make familiar meals more healthy.

Huzzah, a yummy way to cook at home and lose weight. I have only tried 1 recipe out of about 15 that I haven’t liked. Even Ryan has liked them, and he HATES healthy food. We have tried a lot of new ingredients and recipes. Thank you Internet.

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I didn’t want to start any new projects since I’m about 3 weeks away from having a baby outside of me instead of inside, and this book was the perfect thing to fill my time. I couldn’t stop thinking about it when I finished. I bought the first one (anyone want to borrow?) but decided to be wait-listed at the library for book 2. Ugh, I don’t know if I can wait another day to read it…Amazon is calling me.

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]]> http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2010/02/05/new-widget/feed/ 1 Cake-a-licious http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/11/02/cake-a-licious/ http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/11/02/cake-a-licious/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:50:37 +0000 Brittany http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/?p=496 When I was little, I loved Pillsbury’s Confetti cake. I don’t know what it is about those mysterious candy/wax, colored things in the frosting, but they are delicious. I went to the store so I could make this childhood favorite, and I was totally bummed to learn that Pillsbury no longer makes their Confetti frosting. It is now Funfetti and is just lame-o sprinkles.

After googling around I found that Betty Crocker still makes the tasty frosting but they call it Rainbow Chip. I had to search a few stores but I found it.

frosting

And here is the fruit, or I guess cake of my labor. It was so good.

cake

Please, everyone buy this frosting and show Pillsbury the error of their ways.

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Maybe this book will help me get back into reading.

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I have been doing the 15 minutes every other day for maybe 3 weeks now and can say there is a definite difference. Try it out. Who doesn’t have 15 minutes :)

I don’t own the DVDs, so I found the ab section of the video online; here are the links below:

Part 1

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2445079873095200471

Part 2

 video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6584463388003516309

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I took a lot of pictures of flowers on our FLA vacation. This one is my favorite.

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Here is my favorite picture from Epcot. It deserved to be by itself.

 

]]> http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/03/17/my-favorite/feed/ 1 Simply Messing about in Boats http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/03/03/simply-messing-about-in-boats/ http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/2009/03/03/simply-messing-about-in-boats/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:14:11 +0000 Brittany http://mcbrideandgroom.clarksrule.com/?p=302 The Wind in the Willows is supposed to be such a great classic. A book for boys of all ages and times. I do not think this is a kid’s book at all. It is a book for adults who cannot let go of their childhood. A book for adults who idealize the freedom of children and wish they could go “simply messing about in boats” forever. Rat says this phrase at the beginning of the novel to Mole, and it made me think about all the adults who do their own messing about in boats in order to hold onto their childhood. Here is what I mess about with:

  • Swinging on swings
  • Seesawing
  • Playing in a pile of leaves
  • Reading children’s literature
  • Suddenly bursting into a run while on errands. Usually, Ryan is with me so he either has to run to catch up or be left in the dust.
  • Making sand castles
  • Twirling in a dress when no one is looking
  • Quoting undeniably childish things, ex.: Meatloaf, meatloaf, double beatloaf. The nonsense ones are killer

    • What are you messing about with?

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